Tutorial from Ellen – re-creating a card box

Because I (Ellen) really liketo reuseoldstuff, I want to showhow I used an oldcardboxtocreatea new one.

These pictures show how I made the card box:

1. Supplies you need: a Some Odd Girl stamp (here Cat Lady Kaylee clear stamp set), an old card box, scissors, a pencil, abone folder, one thick 30×30 paper, twine, a hole punch or Cropadile (oops! not in the picture) and a rectangular die or cutter.

2. Take your pencil and draw around the old card box on your 30×30 paper. It’s important to have thick paper that will make the card box sturdy.

3. Fold the lines that need to be folded. For this you can use the old card box as a guideline.

4. Cut out a window with rectangular dies or cutter. After that you can glue the box, but don’t forgetto first add the transparency for the window (I reused the transparency from the old box).

5. Punch out two holes in the outside flap with your hole punch, to the make the closure.

6. Close the box like you normally would do. After that you can draw the circles with your pencil on thepiece thatsitsunderneath it. 7. Nowyoucanmakeholes where you justdrew somepencil lines. Use the twine to close the box.

8. The last thing you need to do is to decorate the box. Now you can put some of your favorite cards in it.

Isn’t it a perfect gift or just a pretty way to store your own cards?

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